Dear Allison & McManus families, We are deeply saddened to hear of Alice’s death. - Not only was Alice ‘family’ to us, she was a warm and loving friend, a living bridge between the Lydon family in Galway, and the extended Lydon-McManus family in America. From her first visit to Galway in 1955, my mother Kathleen took this niece to her heart. Although they were Aunt and Niece, with just 9 years between them, they were the best of friends and confidantes, corresponding faithfully over forty decades and making the occasional transatlantic trip to visit one another. Not only was Alice a great communicator, but she was a keeper of family history and understood the importance of knowing and placing where you came from. Alice was also possessed of a great sense of humor which I think I can safely say was inherited from her mother Delia . I know each of you will have many happy memories to draw on, which you should remember both long and often. I hope those memories will make you laugh through the tears in the dark days ahead when you are alone with your thoughts and missing her badly. Alice was a fantastic Mom, Sister, Grandmother, Aunt, Mother-in-Law, Cousin and Friend. She will be sorely missed. Our thoughts and prayers are with you all. Ar dheis lámh Dé go raibh a anam uasal. (May her noble soul be at the right side of God) Sandra, Esther, Marie, Sean, Michael & Anne.
